If you thought James Cameron’s Avatar was only a movie that could never become real, think again. From what we understand, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is planning to do something eerily similar to that of the movie Avatar. The project is called “Avatar”, but instead will use robots instead of Aliens. DARPA plans to allocate little over…
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Since I have moved on from MobileTopSoft, I haven’t been writing much about Windows Phone 7 applications. However, I came across a game about a week ago, and to be honest with you, I didn’t expect much of it. I jumped in expecting to play a game filled with boredom; a game I would stop playing in less than five…
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With the likes of DropBox being so popular, we doubt many PC and Mac users would be using Windows Live Mesh, heck, we doubt many even heard of the thing before. Windows Live Mesh is Microsoft’s free file syncing service that allows you to access your files anywhere on any computer (Windows or Mac) as long as those systems have…
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After years of struggling to gain any significant traction in the music streaming business with Zune, Microsoft now seems to be on the verge of a rebranding of its music streaming service, which is expected to fall under the Xbox name. I for one, I enjoy Zune, so hopefully whatever Microsoft is planning, it would be a lot better than…
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What do we have here. Ladies and gentlemen, remember the antenna problem that plagued the iPhone 4? Well, at the time some consumers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, now the ruling has been handed down and as it turns out, Apple lost, but what cost. The few consumers who chose not to collect one of the free iPhone…
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Many of us own laptops, these devices allow us to do everything that is possible on a desktop anywhere outside of our homes. The sad thing is, laptops require battery power when we are away from a power source, and this can be a huge problem, since battery life is not a strong point on most laptops. This article will…
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It is apparent to everyone who follows the browser wars that Firefox is falling behind rapidly, but that is not stopping Mozilla from trying to regain marketshare and bring some well needed competition to the likes of Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. To one of the ways Mozilla plans on doing this is to release a version of Firefox that…
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We’ve been hearing quite a lot recently about an iPad smaller than the original. Apple is yet to confirm anything regards to this, but with the ongoing success of the Amazon Kindle Fire, which has a 7-inch screen, Apple would be foolish enough not to tread these waters before the company is shut out by the competition. There is some…
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There is a rumor popping up around the interwebs about a possible Playstation Certified HTC branded Android smartphone. We are not sure how solid this piece of new is, but if It turns out to be legitimate, Sony’s Playstation prospects on Android might finally begin to bare fruit. So far, Playstation branded smartphones are all manufactured with the Sony and…
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Android has grown over the years to become the top smartphone Operating System worldwide. With over 400,000 applications in the Android Market, and over 10 Billion downloads to date, it is obvious that apps are one of the main things driving Android forward. Today, we are going to recommend what we believe to be some of the best applications available…
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For those who were planning on buying a Windows 8 tablet with an ARM processor inside, you will be disappointed to find out that ARM powered Windows 8 tablets will not be able to run old applications. We have heard such talks before, but today Steven Sinofsky, chief of Windows, confirmed what many had feared.
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1. Disable unnecessary visual effects Click the Start button > Computer > System properties > system settings (in the left pane) > Settings (in the Performance field of the Advanced tab). the Effects tab, click the “Custom” radio button and uncheck unnecessary visual effect options. Unchecking all the options except the following would help improve performance. Show window contents while…
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Technology companies and Internet companies in general have been quick to adopt the attitude of sharing and affordable or free services. Whether it’s the Google “Don’t Be Evil” motto or simply the crowdsourcing ideals of other major players, the Internet is viewed as something that should be affordable and accessible to everyone all the time. The UK wireless company Fon…
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If you’re like a lot of people, most probably, math does not come easily to you. Perhaps the biggest reason for that is because most humans don’t deal well with large amounts of abstract data, which is essentially what numerals are when used in mathematics. Humans tend to rely heavily on the senses, especially eyesight, to make sense of the…
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There are just so many possibilities when it comes to interesting projects to make that utilize the Arduino microcontroller that is can be hard to figure out what to build. Here are a few of the more interesting and useful projects that you can start considering, once your Arduino skills are up to par. LED Pong Game Once upon a…
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Once upon a time, Microsoft felt it unnecessary to design and release an entirely new operating system more often than at best every five years. Even when faced with the most hated Widows operating system to date, Windows Vista. Microsoft saw no particular need to rush the development or release of Vista’s replacement, Windows 7. But now that Microsoft has…
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When you are the top player in an arena, regardless of what that arena is, anytime something arises that is remotely similar to what you offer, talk of your downfall commences. That’s exactly what happened to Google when the new search platform Wolfram Alpha, touted as the Google killer, hit the Internet. Though Wolfram Alpha may indeed offer some competition…
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Google TV 2.0 Like anything major announced by tech giant Google, the introduction of the Google TV platform received plenty of attention and raised lots of speculation about the future of television. Unfortunately for Google, the first iteration of Google TV received considerably less fanfare than Google would have liked. Not being a company to give up easily, Google is…
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As businesses and organizations become more dependent on and tied into their computer networks, ensuring those networks are protected and functioning at their best becomes increasingly important. Nagios is a software application whose specialty is real time monitoring of information technology architectures and networks. It does this by carefully monitoring what is going on with the network by keeping a…
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The Warpia StreamHD unit is designed to make streaming content from your laptop or desktop computer efficient and easy. The system uses wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology to send data from the computer to the base unit, which connects to the television using an HDMI cable. The end result is a simple way of rapidly beaming audio and video…
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The Bar di Re Arduino is a quiet little pub in the town of Ivrea in northern Italy. One of its patrons, Massimo Banzi, was so fond of the place and its link to the underdog kings who ruled the area in days gone by, that he named the device he invented after the place. Banzi worked as a university…
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The buzz one the street is that there is a really cool new web service that allows normal people to do computer programming. The program is called ifttt, which is an acronym for the common programming phrase: if this, then that. In layman’s terms it means when something happens, or this, then do something else, or that. Ifttt’s novelty comes…
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An announcement had stated that online retail giant, Amazon, is working with the Governor of Tennessee towards implementing a national sales tax. It appears as if the frustrations involved in calculating sales tax for each state has become too complicated for Amazon. As an online retailer, charging for sales tax has always been an issue. Therefore, in 1992 the Supreme…
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Online image and photo editing tools come in really handy as they don’t need to be downloaded and installed on your PC and as a result, don’t really take much RAM helping you run a lot more programs while editing the photos. However, the online photo editors are thought by many as tools just for cropping images before uploading them…
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Microsoft wants its legacy to be about more than just PCs and software. In its ninth year, the Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s way of giving back and challenging today’s youth to design a better tomorrow. The Imagine Cup is a student competition held by Microsoft each year to promote creative and imaginative approaches to technology. Each year the Imagine Cup…
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